M.C. Escher created landscapes and portraits, ... his skill with tessellation — interlocking images to fill an art space — in the nearly 13-feet-long print block "Metamorphosis II." ...

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On view will be some of Escher’s most important works, such as his 13-foot-long woodcut print Metamorphosis II (1939–40), a marvel of tessellation in which motifs such as the chessboard blend ...

The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater.

From the palm-size bookplates made for friends to the 13-foot masterwork “Metamorphosis,” Escher’s work reveals its soul when scrutinized not in groupings but inch by inch. Image ...

They are rare specimens, however: a collection of hand-cut wooden blocks Escher used to print "Fish and Skates," one of his famous metamorphosis works, in which one type of creature or object ...

Escher, who was born in 1898 and died in 1972, was out of synch with his art-world contemporaries. ... “Metamorphosis II,” (1939-40), is a technical and optical feat: ...

In the first-floor gallery, the viewer is immediately met with Metamorphosis II. This impressive print required 20 different woodblocks to create and show tessellations that morph in a progression of ...

Escher’s later, more surreal prints are based on repetition and metamorphosis. “Circle Limit III,” a 1959 color woodcut, depicts a myriad of fish organized so geometrically and symmetrically that ...

I first took my kids to the M.C. Escher exhibit at the N.C. Museum of Art over Thanksgiving. My dad was in town and it seemed like the perfect family activity before settling in for a giant feast ...

Known for his perspective pictures and geometric lithographs, M.C. Escher is one of the best known graphic artists of the 20th century. His work is featured in his hometown, Leeuwarden, 2018 ...